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ACM portal: the ACM digital library. - Search books, journals, dissertations, theses, proceedings, and technical reports on computer science and information technology topics.
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ScienceDirect - Full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.Computer Science, Mathematics
InfoSci Online - Search book chapters, journal articles, case studies and conference proceeding papers covering Information Science, Technology and Management.
Gartner Advisory Intra Web - IT Information Technology research, news analysis, and trends. Full text.
Sage journals online A full text database of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine journals.
Web of science - The most complete search of science and social science literature available. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited referencesearching: 1- Trace how an idea has been confirmed, applied, extended or corrected in later work. 2- Identify authors who cite a particular article (yourown or someone else's). 3 - Identify highly cited authors in a field of study. 4- Observe the progress of an author's research. 5 - Evaluate the impact of an author's work in a particular field. 6 - Conduct multidisciplinary searches.
Academic Search Premier - can be a good choice for computer science/MCIS articles. Be careful how you search it though. It is a huge database with many newspapers and popular magazines. Using the Scholarly/Peer Reviewed limiter is highly recommended.
Learn more about an author's credentials, expertise, and biases.
Biography reference bank -Contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
Web of Science - Provides the author's address and contact information in addition to the article citation and abstract. Learn more about the author at his or her institution's web site as well.